Oberon OS Walkthrough

• inai

  4 8 5.7 JavaScript

  Discontinued An experiment in structuring a NodeJS application *internally* using REST principles.

  

At some point, this would be come close to the AppleScript protocol or Symbian OS.

> So the drawing part of an application would just be a process that sends the screen/compositor process a message describing the state of its window as a tree, and receives messages for events in response.

I've been toying with an interpretation of this here - https://github.com/Imaginea/inai - and kind of having fun with it .. and even built a prototype internal app using it. Super early stage and so stuff won't necessarily make sense at the outset .. or possibly ever. Thoughts welcome though.

> A big advantage is it makes the semantics of composing GUIs a lot more reasonable "replace this leaf of my tree with this other process' tree" ...

The "dom" service in Inai pretty much feels like that. I felt like an idiot to try and (for lack of a better expression) REST-ify the DOM, but it seemed to work to my surprise.

> An application could also "proxy" for a widget, including over a network link, so you get fairly simple network transparency this way too.

.. yeah due to the "REST" nature, this becomes pretty straightforward.

• OberonSystem

  7 39 0.0 C++

  Modified version of the original from http://www.projectoberon.com/ for use with the Oberon IDE

Interesting article, but I would rather go for http://www.projectoberon.com/.

Oberon is a really nice and very well documented programming language and operating system to experiment with. Unfortunately not that much distributions are still available (most links seem to be dead).

If you're interested in the OS or the language, here is a platform independent, stand-alone version running on LuaJIT: https://github.com/rochus-keller/OberonSystem

There is also an integrated IDE with syntax coloring, semantic navigation, and a source level debugger.

The compiler supports small-case keywords and underscores in identifiers. I'm currently working on an extended version of the language.

• SurveyJS

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